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Comment · 7 years ago
Its The Guardian, what do you expect? Malthusian thinking abound...
Comment · 7 years ago
The Ada standard library is massive and is included in the exception. There are "internal" "GNAT specific" packages which you can include in your project but there are not really any you need or would use in a general sense - there are even warnings you get at compile-time telling you that you are using something GNAT specific and are prefixed with GNAT.* instead of Ada.
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
No mention of Ada in 1996? How rude!
Comment · 7 years ago
Think of the time savings though of not having to apt-get/configure/make/google-search/repeat for 971 binaries! :P
Comment · 7 years ago
Doubt that, looking at my list of applications - I have 124. So, 100mb * 124 = 12.4 gb and I have half a terabyte of storage... Windows 10 requires 16 gb of storage. Heck most phones have 64 gb these days.

We need to stop living in the past - this very issue has probably contributed to the scourge of Electron crap being thrown at our faces since it doesn't suffer from dependency hell they just throw a bunch of javascript into an encapsulated instance of chrome and call it a day.

Comment · 7 years ago
Oh my, each app is going to be 20 mb bigger! This mattered 30 years ago, but now I would say we have a huge problem for end users with all of these "Package managers" and "dependency managers" getting tangled up because there are 5 versions of Perl needing 3 versions of Python and so on... I would be a much more happy Linux user if was able to drag and drop an exe. 100mb be damned
Comment · 7 years ago
Wow, I checked but apparently the Pi 3 DOES meet the Windows 10 system requirements just barely. I wonder how fast the UI and Cortana run...

Win 10 Specs: Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor or SoC. RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit. Hard disk space: 16 GB for 32-bit OS 20 GB for 64-bit OS. Graphics card: DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver. Display: 800x600

Ras Pi 3: CPU: 4× ARM Cortex-A53, 1.2GHz. GPU: Broadcom VideoCore IV. RAM: 1GB LPDDR2 (900 MHz) Networking: 10/100 Ethernet, 2.4GHz 802.11n wireless. Bluetooth: Bluetooth 4.1 Classic, Bluetooth Low Energy. Storage: microSD.

Comment · 7 years ago
Electron
Comment · 7 years ago
Alas there are no video-chat programs out there that actually work well : /
Comment · 7 years ago
No reason to get excited folks - its YAEC (yet another electron component).

Me: Wouldn't it be great if we had a light-weight native chat app that was compatible with all of the many slow-resource intensive chat programs i am chained to?

Everyone else: We have solved your problem by creating a new standard resource intensive chat program that solves none of your problems! Also it has cool animations!

Comment · 7 years ago
Well, you'll end up with toxic drinking water with this attitude. I don't know what the right solution is, but saying you don't know enough at this point to throw out your teflon pans and avoid certain products and that you don't want to research things is lazy and ignorant.

Citizen's levying large class-actions suits and making documentaries like "The Devil We Know" are perhaps the best tools we have to stop fascist corruption.

Comment · 7 years ago
Yes many of them are made with this junk, a lot of hygiene products have it too like "Oral-B" floss and even things like microwave popcorn bags...

The more people realize the FDA does not care about us and learn to take personal action the better.

Comment · 7 years ago

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